disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the phone lines here and there it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. such as a crushing defeat on day eight of the world cup in russia losing three. games already been the biggest upset of the tournament so for. people of the many countries that i met up with already. so far we're going to see. a group of english fans that keep in the global feel of the world cup at home watching games with supporters from each country the competition to make the most of it plus our correspondents fit the football. fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by miss the friend

from brazil. and other he's away for football a push for tougher copyright laws in the e.u. threatens to completely change the way the internet looks will tell you and tully in fashion giant benetton faces a backlash after using photographs of rescued migrants ties in campaign. hello good afternoon just after one of the afternoon the twenty second of june of moscow i'm kevin zero in this is our international of the great football coming up the world headlines two in the next half hour all ahead. and is football first aid to the world cup in russia sees all money as predictions

in pro day come true for argentina last night dubbed the group of death the early favorites with a rushed rain hail by croatia. but have the with the. it with the am. with the with the ration funds liberated through the night late at but i win over argentina and its superstar player lionel messi the south americans on the other hand were inconsolable manny how are they able but it is a game they could be facing a shot exit from the world cup we had from fans initially novgorod without much was held. her guard on what her

what do you make of that we were expecting three zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero on the patio at the bottom a lot of the croatians did just great well frankly speaking initially i was for argentina until the very last moment i was sure that lionel messi was going to prove himself in this championship since one although had already scored four goals but it was a failing game for a message he didn't manage to score but as a kind of i saw i was initially supporting creation i really like racial because i think they the creation of our the brother is a rational thing i didn't support argentina frankly though i would feelings are impossible to describe such a big group of friends like i was a lot of gracious. yes came here to watch football it's an indescribable feeling of camaraderie. so argentina still have the chance to progress to the knockout stage just but destiny's not in their hands anymore it's because they need iceland to lose against nigeria today the vikings meantime need just one more point to show

that they leave the group stage if a big nigeria he goes down or found out this point on massive turnout in fact the fans from iceland to moscow. and the brand themselves vikings and they've invaded the russian capital in full force iceland deployed almost ten percent of their population to support the team at their first rule. we're not very good at rest and recuperation we always we plan for it every evening but then somehow it's four o'clock in the morning and we've all got to go home. to her after all it was the night when the world cup host pretty much qualified for the playoffs so who misses out on a posse like that. when i stood watch to

talk to a football at euro twenty sixteen with their fans struck a note with their i can't chance was uneasy but that night i was allowed to tap the beats of the ritual. the the. the. who. was the. put up with eric here is like nothing we've ever seen before it's not healthy james it's about this it's about the whole atmosphere around to do this this is why you're the welcome to. the new the time i've spent with iceland's chanting cool one thing is obvious

qualifying from one of the groups of death doesn't faze the vikings and even if they don't win the cup they've already one everyone's hearts done of artsy. great atmosphere if those guys know many football fans it could make it for this trip to russia to console themselves by trying to keep up with a match as best they can in their home countries next meet a group of english friends who did exactly that in fine style they found a great way to get an authentic international feel to the games and this is a chicken is on their trail. with the world in a football frenzy we're meeting a group of fans who decided to take on a different approach to make sure they don't miss a thing. these friends living in london have

taken weeks off work to watch the world cup the twist is that they have to watch each game with someone who comes from whichever countries playing this has been quite a journey from celebrating with a big crowd from iceland. to making new friends with australians eyes. to watching a game in a nigerian barber shop. to even hiding in a bathroom at a chinese restaurant to cheer england's goals without offending the hosts to whom. i have. people from how many countries have you guys met up with the idea of the game so far we're going to be.

so rich that we watch england in the any two museum restroom in the u.k. little portugal for the portugal is portugal gave main stock well it was literally like stepping into lisbon what do you want to take away from this problem after you're done with that is are you going to be off the ball for a while to me i mean after the fourth day i was advised it cites the boys does anyone a little bit sick but then there was a bad another game on and we just go straight back into it we're seeing problems of london we know seen with meeting people from different walks of life different countries that it's it's kind of base how i'm feeling. and it's why it's great connects us with our city more than anything we have to do. this interesting. all right we're very first much today between brazil and their group stage rival costa rica starts just been less than two hours now let's see these live pictures fans rising in some petersburg obama

shoulder the posting circle it's a bad start the competition of course put a lot of energy into their the way brazil ended with a draw against switzerland costa rica was defeated by serbia but the supporters still a sort of went to meet one particular brazilian who chose a very very very unusual way of getting to see his favorite saying. this fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by missed the boat and his friend paolo from brazil that shuffled through half a dozen south american countries before getting his shit out of the ocean to come here and enjoy the world cup now we're going to take me for a drive i'm going to ask him some questions about his journey. that's go.

when i was a little boy i asked my father to take me to the world cup in argentina which is pretty close to brazil and my father told me it was impossible to get to argentina in a beetle it was in my childhood ever since then i've dreamt about a lot so when i was forty i bought a new paedo and i started travelling all over america. in twenty fourteen when the world cup was in brazil brazil lost to germany one to seven the. and lost to the netherlands zero to three just one goal in two games i told my wife it was completely impossible for brazil to win that cup so i thought about going to russia in the beadle my wife said why not so we started preparing for this trip in two thousand and fourteen and here we are in russia in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight beetle. the beetle traveled around fifteen thousand kilometers on

a ship before that we'd already done like fifty thousand kilometers in south america now it's going to be another ten thousand kilometers through russia will go through st petersburg moscow sochi. and then st petersburg again and then we go to moscow to the big final where surely brazil will play well the weather here is the reason why this tropical i did brazil but these guys all the way to watch the game against costa rica they'll be hoping for a brazilian victory good luck. so travels the world cup posters in marino shared his thoughts on the upcoming much that between brazil and costa rica. brazil in costa rica costa rica is not just the team that did well in the past world cup it was also a team that is very stable and just watch them to play

a friendly against scotland and i know i will organize they but the force was it was full of dozens of creativity of dynamic i don't think brazil is going to have many problems to get this through. so all the teams have busy going all out for the championship for the fans but enjoying some russian hospitality seems we can report so much so that somehow cities across the country running out of beer i'm sure will get that sorted soon now with the competition still only in the group stage previously long held. perceptions of the host country and people are beginning to fade some western reporters are even realizing that russians can actually make a wry smile of course they can well sky news was only shocked by the country's hospitality but there are others who are go see if explains one of the spall the party from the stuff. there is nothing quite like the world cup the scope of it the every. aspect.

of ground in it for the football but before the bulls even been kicked others already in the second half of a very different game here because there's no value in human life it will rob you and. this will be good because with the world cup looming rates are carried out on a regular basis just minutes from iconic beaches shanty town called for villas it's always been like this headlines exposing the evils of the host country grab readers' attention and the eyes of fans but this time some say it's worse soccer associations have threatened to boycott the next men's world cup in russia diplomatic we caught a potential world cup boycott by england the royal family will boycott the soccer

world cup in russia this summer great britain and its media lead the eleventh hour charge to try and rip russia this tournament after the failed poisoning of an ex double agent in salzburg a case muddled with in consistencies and in which the actual perpetrators haven't yet been identified it has soured relations between russia and britain but one might ask what does that have to do with football well it turns out it doesn't matter. it's highly likely russia did it q not see references yes i think the comparison with nine hundred thirty six is is certainly right another political clash over syria and vala giant billboards across london urging world cup boycott governments should not strengthen the also

and she whiston part of the russian president but the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup in russia and of politics isn't enough try recycling every other old argument and leave the football itself on the bench from homophobia to raise his them from corruption to terrorism every grievance you can think of gets put on the pitch why even risk coming to russia shady types everywhere men with tattoos sagas that is exactly what life is like here in russia two men share a cigarette of a beer in broad daylight gosh that could never happen in britain could it the photographer himself says that his mission was to show the darker aspects of city life everywhere from tokyo to new york but who cares there is an

agenda here i think even if. it is going to look dark look i trusted this. article will be around my i'd never assumed it would be anything like this pussy riot the shock feminist performers who rose to the top of russia's protest movement years ago and have now largely been forgotten they're back again no relation to football they just don't like to. so that makes them relevant again the more you read the more outlandish the pundits get beyond this media circus serious and legitimate issues a lost hooliganism and racism among football fans russia's seen its share of disgraceful fan behavior but so has poland

italy germany france a racist attack left him with a broken arm incessant abuse from polish fans wore him down as well fine chelsea football fans and banned from all football matches after they pushed a black man off the paris metro chanting a racist the way we like it. this is the most politicised world cup in decades the media's made sure of that head of us is the greatest celebration of sports and football in the world of common spirits and a love for the game that transcends borders nationality and culture but hatred and scaremongering already here brought by those who couldn't care

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good afternoon from all of us here at r.t. know the way we talk to each other on the internet is there live ated way beyond just using words of course no we deploy gives and of course means which borrowed heavily from movies and t.v. shows but seems that under threat from the e.u.'s legal oversea is getting tough on copyright infringement especially online as donald quarter explains. the internet as we know it may soon radically change at least in the e.u. with memes facing an axis stench of crisis as a result of new copyright laws that might kill them off.

a group of european parliament members are pushing for a new rules they would see platforms censor information to avoid copyright infringements now article thirteen is one of the more controversial of the plan would have platforms install filters to check all the information users upload onto the internet what we're seeing here in this particular instance is this goes against what is the very much the. social media in particular where it's user generated and many uses the cult of the general is taking snippets from schools it's taking. video it's taking photos to. use it goes in the particular way now article eleven or the link tax has also

garnered criticism it would see online platforms paying news publishers a fee just to if they link to their content now this is a really been tried both in germany and in spain failing miserably in both instances and with this new e.u. copyright proposal seemingly on the way there are still a lot of questions as to what actually constitutes a taxable link and what if the government uses it to crack down on freedom of speech while seventy alarmed internet experts including the founders of the world wide web and wikipedia have written a letter in protest by requiring internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the current and that their users of bloat article thirteen takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of bintan it from an open platform for sharing and innovation into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its uses. and alarm bells have also been ringing at the united nations human rights council states and into

governmental organizations should refrain from establishing new arrangements that would require the proactive monitoring filtering of content which is both inconsistent with the right to privacy and likely to mount a pre-publication censorship for the proposal to become law the e.u. parliament will have to vote on it later this year and its critics are dead set on slaying this bill which they say would transform the internet into a tool of surveillance and control donald corridor r.t. berlin. next seems a country is traditionally seen as democratic large sections of the population don't actually feel the government's is serving them all the people have enough say is coding to a set of polls at three in the us and europe by research companies caleb maupin take stock of the results now the word democracy literally means the rule of the people so wouldn't it be strange if democratic governments did not have the trust of their populations right now the biggest risk for democracy says that the public

no longer sees them as democratic over one hundred twenty five thousand people from fifty different countries participated in this survey when asked the question do you feel like the government is working on your behalf sixty four percent of those living in democratic countries answered the question with rarely or never meanwhile along those living in countries labeled by freedom house as not free only forty one percent gave that answer we decided to ask people in three different countries widely viewed as democratic how they feel about the issue you're not doing this for you know my behalf i don't get any benefit from it i think they were going to themselves i believe in our government. i think they're working on are we have. a you know mr. democracy is losing ties like the tame democracy is not what it should mean i've been. it's money purely rocketeers money purely. i think well i

bet people are millicent exams house and not to watch the town. the promise different things but in the end they do not do what they promised when political debate seems like a lot of finger pointing and point scoring and the elections are endless dog and pony shows a lot of the population seems to feel like their needs are not being met this poll seems to indicate that around the world a lot of people are frustrated by the fact that it seems that democracy is more about winning votes every few years that about serving the people happen r.t. new york. fashion show benetton sparked outrage among a group for using a photograph of rescued migrants in an advertising campaign pictures of a rescue vessel filled to capacity were posted on benetton twitter page with the company logo attached the french aid organization responsible for the rescue condemned the move was inappropriate. never allows the use of these photographs for commercial purposes the dignity of survivors must be respected in

all circumstances it's every prime minister silvio these reacted to to the campaign calling to speak of all benetton defended the it could help draw attention to the plight of migrants as provocative images were part of the firm's brand most times there's been strong debate over the use of my group photos before though in twenty sixteen a bollywood actress and fashion magazine had to apologize for that controversial cover photo the actress is wearing a top that at the words migrant refugee and outside across well the word traveller stands the magazine then said its intention was to address than a phobia confessed his former chief executive of the u.k.'s immigration advisory service he told us that provocative campaigns like these can have an desired effect . the people we see who are prepared to risk their lives ok for across the mediterranean these are desperate people and to use them in any shape or form for advertising products is i think obscene but i wasn't surprised because benetton

scott form you know this is the organization that actually has featured a nun kissing a priest and the mom kissing a priest people on death row i mean they go out to liberally to shock and to make people like you and i feel discuss it we end up giving them a lot of free publicist see as we are now by talking about it if they keep doing this they are going to really second people and we're going to wind up with many people deciding to boycott they good so we'll have the the the opposite effect of the one that they want plenty of food for thought on this channel less calling break with more of this friday's talk football action and the rest of the news in thirty minutes i'm kevin owen as ever thank you for watching this channel we are. international.

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